The Department of Special Investigation (DSI), the Army and police officers have raided three target locations in Bangkok, including a house of an alleged loan shark, as they sought to build a case against the loan shark, DSI chief Pol Colonel Paisit Wongmuang said on Wednesday. Many were also not given receipts for debt repayment or were told to destroy such receipts. Others were about to fully repay their debt to the alleged loan shark were also bullied. The suspect allegedly threatened to send their loan contracts (containing the exaggerated loan amount) to court in a lawsuit to force them to pay the loan amount cited on paper, Paisit added. From 2009 until now, the suspect had allegedly filed 460 lawsuits (374 civil lawsuits and 86 criminal lawsuits) against 852 debtors over debts worth Bt24.6 million, said Paisit.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 03, 2019 08:36 UTC